The LGO-verse lives! Established KiriKam. Kirihara x Kamio Featuring Kamio's little sister in her new primary class. Crossover with Aishiteruze Baby. Michiko's first Open Class is done, and Rikkai waits for Kamio's report. Daddy!Kamio.

Notes: Another fic
in the LGO-verse. Kamio's little sister is changing classes – and
makes some new friends. Crossover with Aishiteruze Baby.

SERIES SPOILER
INFO!!

Info:Aishteruze
Baby is an adorable, 26-episode anime based around 15 year old
Kippei Katakura who is suddenly placed in charge of taking care of
his cousin, 5 year old Yuzuyu-chan. Kippei's family is interesting,
warm, and welcoming – a nice change. The series explores the
Japanese hierarchy of mothers and play groups, abandonment, post
natal depression, suicidal teenagers and the pressure of school,
child abuse, parental death, anorexia (Kippei's off/on girlfriend
Kokoro-chan) and does it in a way that doesn't overwhelm the viewer
with angst, offers a realistic portrayal – and yet still manages to
make you smile with hope. It's one of my favorite sugary animes.
Yuzuyu-chan is just so adorable, it's ridiculous. Kippei goes from a
shallow, girl-obsessed, school-skipping slacker, to a caring,
sentimental, warm-hearted and emotional young man who wins his
girlfriend by being there for her when no one else is, saves a young
family friend from making a fatal mistake, and all while acting as
the parent for little Yuzuyu-chan.

Anyway, the series ends
with Kippei still taking care of Yuzuyu-chan, as there's been no real
resolution with her mother. I'm assuming this is still the case, and
so Yuzuyu-chan is now in grade 2 and still living with Kippei and his
family.

Additional: The
school system I'm using heer is semi-based on the one in my school in
Shanghai. The best class is categorically known as 'Class 1' and if
the students can't keep up, they get switched with other classes in
future terms. Exceptions are made for students who have parents
working as teachers in the school who get to have their children
placed in Class 1 as a working 'perk' even though the child's grades
should have them dropping a grade or two, such as one of my students.
.;;

Lastly: this fic is
one of several that I plan to write that will eventually have Kippei
from Aishiteruze Baby meeting Kamio (and Kirihara, of course)
through their sisters, and giving both of them a chance to make some
new friends. However, in this first fic, Kamio only gets a few brief
mentions, Akaya even less. That won't be the case for future fics.

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Michiko hesitated outside
the classroom door. Butterflies did cartwheels over the elephants
marching inside her tummy, and it was only the knowledge that
Akira-nii would be very disappointed in her that kept her from
running back down the hall and out the door.

Technically, she figured
she was supposed to be happy. After a year and a half of arguing with
the schools, Akira-nii had finally been able to have Michi moved to a
classroom of her proper level. Primary school grades were divided by
class. The students who scored the highest marks were put into Class
1, and then the next highest into Classes 2, 3 and 4. Students with
any kind of a disability or special need were either put into Class
5, or into a special program. Michiko wasn't severely disabled or
handicapped, but her hearing problems and difficulties in focusing
had automatically had her slotted into Class 5 – despite her higher
than average test marks.

Akira-nii had been really
angry, and had been demanding that Michiko be put into a class that
would challenge her ever since. 'If I'd known this would happen, I
wouldn't have mentioned her having a mild hearing condition,' he'd
told the school's guidance counselor angrily. Michiko didn't really
like being in Class 5. Some of the students there were scary. Two of
them were older than her, old enough to be in grades three and five
respectively, but they were unable to do more than basic work. The
teacher was someone Akira-nii called 'a patronizing idiot'. Michiko
wasn't quite sure what patronizing meant, but it couldn't have been
good.

Her teacher had always
spoken very slowly to her, shouting at times, even though Michiko
could hear perfectly fine when she was paying attention, and sitting
close to the board. She didn't know why the teacher praised her so
lavishly for doing the simplest of tasks, but she figured it had
something to do with that 'patronizing' word again, and let it go.

But now she was being put
into Grade two, class two as a result of her latest test marks that
had come back. It was a trial run, to see if she could handle it.
Kamio-nii had told her that it was very important that she pay close
attention to her lessons, and had asked the teacher to let her sit
close to the front of the room. The teacher had agreed. Michiko liked
her. Midori Koizumi – Koizumi-sensei – was very pretty, and she
smiled a lot. Michiko hoped she would be able to stay there. She
seemed a lot nicer than Onada-sensei.

The headmaster was looking
at her. "Ready, Michiko-chan?" Yutaka Fujikawa was a tall man,
and he had scared Michiko on the first day of school with his deep
voice. But he had a nice smile, and he never shouted at her like she
couldn't hear all the time.

"Yes," she said in a
small voice. She wasn't sure if that was really true or not, but
there wasn't much else she could say. "I'm ready."

Fujikawa-sensei knocked on
the door, and a minute later, a short girl with long black hair tied
up in twisty pigtails, opened it. "Sensei!"

"Koizumi-sensei?"
Fujikawa-sensei entered the classroom with Michiko trailing slowly
behind. All chatter in the room stopped as forty pairs of eyes
focused on her. "I have your new student for you."

"Ah, Michiko-chan!"
Koizumi-sensei moved to the front of the class, smiling warmly.
Michiko tentatively smiled back. "Welcome to class two! We're about
to draw a picture of our favorite animals so we can discuss them."
Koizumi-sensei bowed her head at Fujikawa. "Thank you for bringing
her."

"My pleasure. Enjoy your
new class, Michiko-chan," Fujikawa said, and Michiko watched, a
little forlornly, as he left her there.

"Ah, to have you sit
near the front?" Koizumi-sensei nodded. "I remember. And it just
so happens that one of our groups that sits in the front has an
opening!" She raised her voice a little. "Panda-group, raise your
hands!"

A group of three students
sitting by the window in front of the teacher's desk raised their
hands. There were two girls and one boy. The boy was smiling – he
looked friendly. So did the girl with the pale brown, nearly gray
hair. The other girl was the one who had opened the door, and she had
a suspicious look on her face. There was a chair between the
gray-haired girl and the boy. Michiko swallowed hard and headed over.

"Michiko, all of our
students are in groups named after something in the unit we're
studying in English class. The unit right now is 'animals'. You're
now part of the Panda group." Koizumi-sensei introduced the other
students. "This is Michiko-chan. Michiko, this is Ken-kun."

Ken-kun waved at her. "Hi
Michiko-chan!"

Koizumi-sensei pointed to
the girl with the twisty braids. "This is Marika-chan."

"Your name is too close
to mine," Marika-chan complained. "People will get us mixed up."

"It will be fine,
Marika-chan," Koizumi-sensei said firmly. "And Michiko-chan, this
is Yuzuyu-chan."

The gray-brown haired girl
stared at her with wide brown eyes. Michiko blinked in surprise –
did she have something on her face? Her clothes?

Michiko smiled as the two
of them started bickering. Yuzuyu-chan had a smile on her face as she
watched them, which meant they probably did this a lot. It reminded
her of 'Kira-nii and 'Kaya-nii fighting over what movie to watch
before Sachiko popped a cartoon in the VCR and ended the conflict. It
was reassuring. Class 2 didn't seem so scary after all.

"So what's your favorite
animal?" Yuzuyu-chan asked, handing her a piece of paper. "Do you
have crayons? You can use mine if you don't."

Michiko watched and
smiled. Yes, she had a feeling she was going to like Class 2.

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End Notes: Midori
Koizumi and Yutaka Fujikawa are my own creation, as is Onada-sensei
(though her name is taken from a disagreeable young woman who
appeared briefly in 2 episodes of Aishiteruze Baby and
frightened Yuzuyu-chan to make Kippei like her. Yeah, I don't get it
either). Marika-chan and Ken-kun are Yuzuyu-chan's canon friends from
pre-school – they're all attending primary school together.

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